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Updated ELT News Feed pages I’ve updated the ELT News Feed section of this blog to make it easier for people to find their way around. It’s now divided into four sections which I hope will really help teachers who want to build on their existing skills and find new lesson ideas for their students: […]

Debates added to topic-based materials section Further to my recent post about staging class debates, I’ve just uploaded two more to the topic-based materials section of this blog: one (on whether some art can be better than other art) here; the other (on whether private schools should be abolished) here. You can read some ideas […]

This is a short explanation of why eltresource.com joined the online protest against these two proposed bills, the first being discussed in the US House of Representatives and the second soon to be voted on in the Senate.

In this post, I discuss the value and limitations of focussing on the most frequent words of English in class, and share two lesson activities which focus on uncovering language that students already use and find important, or want to use.